Key Democratic Group Will Sit Out Midterm Elections

[Chris_]

Key Democratic Group Will Sit Out Midterm Elections

The Democratic Party’s biggest super PAC, recently retooled as an early pro-Hillary Clinton effort, will sit out the midterm elections this year.

Priorities USA, which operates under loose campaign finance rules that allow it to raise and spend unlimited sums, put $65 million behind Barack Obama in 2012.

Kauffmann’s comments Wednesday night mark the first sure signal since the group’s re-launch last month that it will steer clear of 2014 races.

Priorities USA will also take steps to ensure its Clinton fundraising operation doesn’t interfere with the party during the midterms, according to a Wall Street Journal report this week. The group, the article said, is discussing a system in which it asks donors to hold off on making larger contributions until after 2014.

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I'm sure the Democrats are fine with the emphasized part as long as it helps then.

[JohnnyReb]

So, basically they are saying, "Save your money until later, we're going to loose our asses."

[Ralph Wiggum]

They will still vote reliably Democrat, just won't spend money propping up candidates.  No real big deal unless they decided not to vote.

[SaintLouieWoman]

Somebody sure in the heck is pumping in money. Rep Young, a Republican, died a while back and there's a special election shortly. Alex Sink, a female dem who ran and lost against Gov Rick Scott, is running for the seat. The DNC I believe is paying for a never ending series of attack ads against the Republican, Jolly, who is running, saying he's a lobbyist. The Republicans are firing back with ads saying how much she spent on using the state plane when she held statewide office previously, on little things for a trip to the Bahamas and for campaign trips, presumably when she was running for governor.

Don't kid yourself. One way or the other, the dems will regurgitate some really nasty ads if this one is what will be coming.

[zeitgeist]

Ever notice how animals can sense danger?  Democratics do not seem to have that same innate instinct.

http://finance.fortune.cnn.com/2013/09/30/dnc-debt-crisis/?iid=SF_F_River

The DNC is nearly broke
September 30, 2013: 10:20 AM ET


As the government nears shutdown, the fundraising arm of the Democratic Party is having a budget crisis of its own.

By Tory Newmyer, writer

FORTUNE -- There's another budget crisis in Washington, and it's unfolding inside the Democratic party. The Democratic National Committee remains so deeply in the hole from spending in the last election that it is struggling to pay its own vendors.

It is a highly unusual state of affairs for a national party -- especially one that can deploy the President as its fundraiser-in-chief -- and it speaks to the quiet but serious organizational problems the party has yet to address since the last election, obscured in part by the much messier spectacle of GOP infighting.

The Democrats' numbers speak for themselves: Through August, 10 months after helping President Obama secure a second term, the DNC owed its various creditors a total of $18.1 million, compared to the $12.5 million cash cushion the Republican National Committee is holding

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And then there are the foot soldiers who may stay home licking their self inflicted Obamacare wounds

http://www.washingtonpost.com/business/economy/labor-union-officials-say-obama-betrayed-them-in-health-care-rollout/2014/01/31/2cda6afc-8789-11e3-833c-33098f9e5267_story.html

Labor union officials say Obama betrayed them in health-care rollout


By Steven Mufson and Tom Hamburger,   Published: January 31 E-mail the writers
 

 Labor leaders who have spent months lobbying unsuccessfully for special protections under the Affordable Care Act warned this week that the White House’s continued refusal to help is dampening union support for Democratic candidates in this year’s midterm elections.

Leaders of two major unions, including the first to endorse Obama in 2008, said they have been betrayed by an administration that wooed their support for the 2009 legislation with promises to later address the peculiar needs of union-negotiated insurance plans that cover millions of workers.


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DUmmies, the true believers will be goobsmacked.